Hobby Lobby is having a great sale this week with all of their paper at 50% off. The perfect time to take a chance on a new product and experiment. I bought the Core’dinations ”Spell Caster” pack. It is black on one side and has twenty shades of “vintage” color on the other side. The black side is indeed magic, and it LOVES the Cuttlebug! It was so fun that I just had to create a quick video. When people see what you can do with Cuttlebug folders and a piece of sandpaper this stuff is going to fly off the shelves!

As the image started to pop it just screamed for my new Prima Panda stamp. I love how the colors of the card are seasonal, on a non-Christmas card. The reds, greens and black make my little Chinese Panda feel right at home. And the shiny red ribbon is reminiscant of a classical Chinese silk dress.

The Panda’s body is shaded with Copic W1 and W3 markers with R02 in the nose and ears and YG63 on the flourishes. The background was done with W1 as the base all the way around and YR00/RV21 and YG63 applied to the tip of the colorless blender and worked into the top and bottom respectively. As I worked my way outward my strokes became more loose with white space showing through. Then I drew some branches with the same colors on the top bottom. But it was a little overpowering so I went back over the branches with a colorless blender which was exactly what it needed. After cutting the Panda out with Spellbinder Nestabilities I used a Copic Multiliner to draw loops around the scallops and filled them in with the pinks and green.

The caption box was cut/embossed with long rectangle Nestabilities then colored with the Copics and topped off with Diamond Stickles. “Thanks” is a Cuttlebug die. I colored it with R02, then applied red Liquid Pearls in a “sponge-like” pattern with my fingertip and finished it off with Glossy Accents.

The flowers are Prima’s Essentials 5 “Make Me Happy” and they coordinate perfectly with the Basic Grey’s Urban Prairie paper and brads.

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